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Cold Weather Riding: Going the Distance
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<blockquote data-quote="redgum" data-source="post: 49527" data-attributes="member: 1433"><p>Bruno, thanks for posting this. Its amazing how just a little oversight can cost you big time in cold wealther.</p><p></p><p>Our winters don't get as cold as even your autums, but this year I was riding back from Victoria and made wrong turn. It put 2 hours on my trip along the foot hills of the Snowie Mountains. I landed up riding after dark in 7C temps, may be lower. I had the thermols on and the winter lining on my jacked. So I should have been OK. But there was a "gap" between my Jacket and helmet I'd never felt before. It was enough to allow a small stream air to waft over the thurmals at the base of the helmet. Slowly it to sent a hill over my head and down my back. AFter a while I found myself lossing concentration and my reactions became sluggish. Hypothermia? You bet. Despite isometirics, stopping and warming up, chochloate and energy bars... the next two days I felt wiped out and the chill down my back and over my head stayed with me for those two days!</p><p></p><p>I was just lucky I realised what was happening to me at the time.</p><p></p><p>p.s. did you ever return to Iron Wood to thank the women that helped you out?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redgum, post: 49527, member: 1433"] Bruno, thanks for posting this. Its amazing how just a little oversight can cost you big time in cold wealther. Our winters don't get as cold as even your autums, but this year I was riding back from Victoria and made wrong turn. It put 2 hours on my trip along the foot hills of the Snowie Mountains. I landed up riding after dark in 7C temps, may be lower. I had the thermols on and the winter lining on my jacked. So I should have been OK. But there was a "gap" between my Jacket and helmet I'd never felt before. It was enough to allow a small stream air to waft over the thurmals at the base of the helmet. Slowly it to sent a hill over my head and down my back. AFter a while I found myself lossing concentration and my reactions became sluggish. Hypothermia? You bet. Despite isometirics, stopping and warming up, chochloate and energy bars... the next two days I felt wiped out and the chill down my back and over my head stayed with me for those two days! I was just lucky I realised what was happening to me at the time. p.s. did you ever return to Iron Wood to thank the women that helped you out? [/QUOTE]
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